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Conference Agenda |
9:00 am - 9:30 am |
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Registration |
| 9:30 am - 10: 00 am |
Welcome Remarks |
- - Dr. Myriam Mrad, Chair of Organizing Committe
- - Dr. Huda Huijer, Dean Faculty of Health Sciences
- - Dr. Wael Al Delaimy and Dr. Fayez Al Abdullah, GEOHUB, Principal Investigators
- - Representative of H.E. Dr. Nasser Yassine, Minister of Environment
- - Dr. Elias Warrak, President, University of Balamand
- - H.E. Dr. Firas Abiad, Minister of Public Health
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10:00 am - 10:30 am |
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS |
Neurodevelopment and Multigenerational Exposures
Dr.Marc Weisskopf
Director, Harvard Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am |
A Multi-Omic Approach and Bioinformatic Analysis in Studies of Exposures to Chemical Carcinogens
Dr. Luoping Zhang
Division of Environmental Health Sciences
School of Public Health University of California Berkeley |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
Climate Change and Health in the MENA
Dr. Wael Al Delaimy
Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health & Human Longevity
University of San Diego California |
| 11:30 am - 11:50 am |
Oral Presentation |
Vulnerability of healthcare institutions in Lebanon: What can we learn from COVID-19 pandemic to better adapt to climate change?
Lea Kai, Manager of Climate change projects with UNDP and Ministry of Environment |
11:50 am - 12:10 pm |
Personal exposure to PM2.5 in different rural and urban microenvironments
Dr. Wehbeh Farah, University of Saint Joseph, Lebanon |
| 12:10 pm -12:30 pm |
WEF Nexus approach for evaluating the sustainability of the Lebanese Mediterranean Diet
Dr. Rabi Mohtar, Texas A&M University |
| 12:30 pm - 12:50 pm |
Operational tools for managing climate-related hazards: the case of forest fires in Lebanon.
Dr. Georges Mitri, University of Balamand, Lebanon |
| 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm |
Eng. Mazen Malkawi, CEHA |
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm |
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Lunch break |
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm |
Oral Presentation
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Large-scale climate indices, climate and environmental extremes, The Saharan Oscillation Index (SaOI): a new climate index for the northeast Africa.
Tebbaai Younnes, Morocco |
3:15 pm - 3:30pm |
The mental effects of air pollution at elementary school students near the Jordanian petroleum refinery station
Anas Khaled Irsheid Alzyoud, Jordan University of Sciences and Technology |
| 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm |
Assessing the Effects of Climate Change and economic crisis on Agriculture and Food Security in Akkar
Tamara Bou Ghader, University of Balamand, Lebanon |
| 3:45 pm - 4:00 pm |
Water-Energy-Food-Health: Assessment of environmental strategies, Co-benefits & Cost Effectiveness in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
Ihssane El Marouani, Morocco |
| 4:00 pm - 4:15 pm |
The association between increased ambient temperatures and adverse psychological outcomes: Time-series analysis in Jordan.
Abeer Albdour, Jordan University of Sciences and Technology |
| 4:15 pm - 4:30 pm |
Cost benefit analysis of setting up an Early warning system of heat waves in Jordan.
Ghada Khalaf E'layan Balaw, Jordan University of Sciences and Technology |
| 4:30 pm - 4:45 pm |
A Review of climate change manifestations and their impact on mortality in the Mediterranean region.
Mouaad Adarbaz, Morocco |
| 4:45 pm - 5:00 pm |
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Awards Ceremony |